WEXFORD, Pa. – The Franciscan University men's tennis team's winning streak continued into the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference post season tournament as they beat the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 5-0. After their victory, the Barons will have less than 24 hours prepare to take on Penn State Behrend for the AMCC Championship.

FUS had a strong day against the Bobcats needing only five games to seal their victory. Their three doubles teams, highlighted by captain Paul Jarzynka and junior Brian Robau, won all three of their matches needing only two singles victories by junior Leonel Lacayo and Robau to secure the semi-final victory.

“We got our five victories pretty quickly,” head coach Jeremy Ellis said. “We have been getting a lot of hitting in recently to prepare for this weekend. We had to be prepared to beat Greensburg and Penn State- Behrend.”

It has been a successful year for Franciscan who ended its regular season undefeated against the AMCC and are looking to follow up their stellar season with their first conference title and trip to the NCAA tournament.

Franciscan is looking for redemption against the Lions who beat them in last year's championships. FUS beat Behrend on April 7 and look to continue the trend tomorrow.

“We will be playing with a lot of urgency tomorrow,” Jarzynka said. “We played well against Behrend earlier this month.”

Jarzynka is fresh off being named the AMCC Player of the Week for the second time this season.

“We cannot get too high on ourselves right now,” Jarzynka said. “We are focused on getting the win. We don't want to strain ourselves too much thinking about anything else.”

Ellis said the same thing as his captain about tomorrow's game.

“It's encouraging to be around this group of guys,” Ellis said. “We want to get a good night's sleep and continue the momentum for tomorrow.”

The Barons will play the AMCC Championship match against Behrend on April 21 at 9:30 a.m.